Date:03/12/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/12/03/stories/2006120304560800.htm

National

DMK condemns Trinamool violence

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Saturday condemned the violence by Trinamool Congress legislators in the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday.

Replying to a question, Mr. Karunanidhi referred to the criticism of the former West Bengal Chief Minister and veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Jyoti Basu.

"It appears that even the term, `democracy' may vanish from one's mind, after the State Assemblies and the Parliament have metamorphosed into fighting fields. There is a limit for anything," he said.

The West Bengal episode had dwarfed the violent clashes between the then two factions of the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 1988, he said.